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Ideal_Rock
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My dream stone is the hundred-carat Delong Star Ruby:
but I could never get 10 other people to agree to help me with a heist. Fortunately, I'm a patient bargain shopper and I don't aspire to perfection. After decades of carefully combing ebay, etsy, etc, I hit the jackpot on poshmark: a natural star ruby exactly like the Delong, only 1/50th the size and 1/50th the quality, selling for less than the value of its setting alone.
It's an intense, somewhat purplish magenta in the shade and hot pinkish red in the sun. Tons of red fluorescence. A definite, if blurry, star. Lots of silk, zoning, cracks/feathers, and other inclusions, some of which reach the surface--the clarity is the worst thing about it. If I'm guessing correctly about the depth, it's more than 2 carats but less than 2 1/2 . It's in a fabulously ornate platinum setting with natural diamonds. I believe the ring was made in Japan in the mid-20th century.
Video:
This is the color I mostly see, when it's not in direct sunlight--darker and more purplish, like the Delong:
Tons of inclusions, visible mostly through a loupe in very bright light:
I'm a little worried it will fall apart if I sneeze. But I swear it looks much less fragile when it's not magnified.
Tons of fluorescence:
(Some of the diamonds, which are clearly natural, are glowing in that photo; there also seems to be something like glue glowing under one prong.)
but I could never get 10 other people to agree to help me with a heist. Fortunately, I'm a patient bargain shopper and I don't aspire to perfection. After decades of carefully combing ebay, etsy, etc, I hit the jackpot on poshmark: a natural star ruby exactly like the Delong, only 1/50th the size and 1/50th the quality, selling for less than the value of its setting alone.
It's an intense, somewhat purplish magenta in the shade and hot pinkish red in the sun. Tons of red fluorescence. A definite, if blurry, star. Lots of silk, zoning, cracks/feathers, and other inclusions, some of which reach the surface--the clarity is the worst thing about it. If I'm guessing correctly about the depth, it's more than 2 carats but less than 2 1/2 . It's in a fabulously ornate platinum setting with natural diamonds. I believe the ring was made in Japan in the mid-20th century.
Video:
This is the color I mostly see, when it's not in direct sunlight--darker and more purplish, like the Delong:
Tons of inclusions, visible mostly through a loupe in very bright light:
I'm a little worried it will fall apart if I sneeze. But I swear it looks much less fragile when it's not magnified.
Tons of fluorescence:
(Some of the diamonds, which are clearly natural, are glowing in that photo; there also seems to be something like glue glowing under one prong.)
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